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• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  When we last left off, I had narrowly dodged Hurricane Ike to fly down to the Rio Grande Valley. The saga continues... McAllen, Texas ... . My hotel was right next to a Tony Roma's (great ribs!) and Logan

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  campus to discover there's been a hack in Lobby 10! The hack is two giant ... pages]. 9:15am: I arrive at the President's Welcome just in time to see ... surgeon. 9:28am: A parent's question: "How important is it to choose a major

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  An hour-to-hour (kinda sorta somewhat close to one) description of ... tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... painful but doable. But it's Saturday, and according to my 18

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  remember, in my last post I asked for people to provide me with MIT-related topics to write about. Today's entry was requested by Anonymous (come on ... have the same question. It can be intimidating to go alone to a new place

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to blog every day 'til eternity passes away, just to share them with ... to go home and get my instrument, so I had to take it to class with me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m only happy when it rains. You can't take pictures in Boston. Don't even try.

  

  So, we had this great idea of going to Shakespeare on the Common, a ... , what could go wrong if we headed down to the Common to see it? On the ... . As a purveyor of primarily wrapped items, they're even nice enough to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  , economists are of course concerned with gathering empirical data to support or ... considerations to cover. Correspondingly, economists deliberate on an additional type of question, the normative (as opposed to the “positive”) or the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  Ben O. '19 and I decided to team up to talk about all the dance teams ... involved in dance, we thought we’d talk about all the opportunities to ... dance, from traditional Asian dance to K-Pop; members perform at a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Travel

  Motion of Manhattan and other photos from the busy city next door.

  

  More snippets of life; A sequel photoblog to Colors of Campus Series inspired by Kai’s Parallel Universe Post

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 29, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  between now and departure stands a few classes

  

  of me. How was I to do it seven more times? The soon-to-be graduates ... technical classes completed, they made it to the other end. They evidently ... me with five classes to take. This is strangely my least mechanical

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / Travel

  Acception Therapy airplanes! airplanes airplanes

  

  see: Rejection Therapy pilot had both a321neo (the actual plane) and a320 cards!! An arrow pointing right Previous An arrow pointing right Next shiny,,, An arrow pointing right Previous An…

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  asked students to share their reflections on their background, their weekend on campus, and where they hope to go next. Hear straight from them: Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  furniture. Although I initially emailed the EC house manager to request additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain ... ] friend Hanu for help. At first, I had an ambitious plan to build a king

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  : I am invulnerable to alarms in the morning, no matter how loud or ... want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of high school. Suffice to say, punctuality has never been my strong suit

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  and Computer Science (6-2), and I wanted to write a blog about MIT ... from the design stage to two annual competitions in May and June, where ... , which means I am responsible for what I like to call “the soul of the car

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  I famously have perfect taste, and with little to do over the summer, I'm left to just sit around and ponder endlessly, refining my taste ... to no explanation. Feel free to argue in the comments...I'm ready to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... of the cruft (for now 😳), I wasn’t too sure what to write about. I don’t have some great life wisdom to share or huge post-MIT takeaways. Or

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  transcript. hence, don't try to get a 100"]A, B, or C[/annotation]) or No ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to abuse your PNR experience: Go AWOL all semester and then just try to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught ... . I lied to someone's parents It was[annotation note="Parents come to ... brain is too sleepy to think, but too awake to fall asleep. [-100 aura

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024